Ethan Bennett
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Ear Training Site Profile: JazzGuitar.be
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… Jazzguitar.be is a particularly multifaceted resource for any jazz musician, but it’s a goldmine for guitarists at a beginning to intermediate stage of jazz training. Featuring a dense list of lessons—from...
Ear Training Site Profile: Big Ears
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… The Big Ears online ear trainer is not complicated. It’s not one of those programs with a million settings, or an overwhelming list of scales and modes. It’s simply an interval trainer. But if you want to...
Ear Training Site Profile: JazzAdvice.com
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… Intro Jazzadvice.com is, unsurprisingly, a blog full of jazz advice. You probably didn’t need this article to tell you that, but the internet’s full of jazz ‘advice’ and you can waste a lot of...
Ear Training Site Profile: TrainEar.com
Continuing in our series of ear training site profiles… Interval association is a method of ear training in which you find specific examples of each interval in popular songs, thus giving you a little more context for memorizing each one. This can be especially...
Ear Training Site Profile: Good-Ear.com
This is the first in a series of posts looking at some of the valuable ear training resources across the web. We’re starting off with one of the “grand-daddies” of online aural skills training: Good-Ear.com. If you’ve never seen this ear training app...Interval Recognition Tip: Mind the gap!
Here’s a great interval recognition tip: when learning intervals don’t just focus on the two notes. Instead try this approach for much greater success.
Capitalising on aural inspiration (Part Two)
If you haven’t read Part One of this article, here’s a quick summation: in ear training, as in most musical pursuits, some of the most productive moments don’t come from dedicated practice time or specific exercises. In fact, they come from those fleeting moments of...
Capitalising on aural inspiration (Part One)
You know that feeling when you hear a mind-blowing song: that bittersweet mix of awe and… dejection? The immediate listening experience can be immensely rewarding, but to hear a composition which takes advantage of music theory to a greater degree than we’re...
How to Double Your Progress With Ear Training
Did you know there are two different but equally useful ways to do improve your musical ear? Learn about melodic and harmonic ear training.
